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"I'm busy, you're busy, everybody's busy. I've got a lot I want to say to you, though. 'All right, Pia told her. 'Hit me with it. 'First, I'm so sorry about what my uncle Urien did to you guys. I hate him, he killed my family, and we're going to cut off his head, and then I have to be Queen, but before that happens let's do lunch, okay?"
"In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid."
"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop."
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
"It is easier to start a war than to end it."
"Players have a great deal of flexibility when conducting diplomatic relations with their allies."
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"I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
"The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought."
"It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object."
"Indeed, it is a sign of marked political weakness in anycommonwealth if the people tend to be carried away by mere oratory, if theytend to value words in and for themselves, as divorced from the deeds for whichthey are supposed to stand. The phrase-maker, the phrase-monger, the readytalker, however great his power, whose speech does not make for courage,sobriety, and right understanding, is simply a noxious element in the bodypolitic, and it speaks ill for the public if he has influence over them. To admirethe gift of oratory without regard to the moral quality behind the gift is to dowrong to the republic."
"The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books."
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public."
"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."
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